# 典

| 典 | U+5178, &#20856; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5178 |
| ← 具 [U+5177] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 兹 → [U+5179] |

## Translingual
### Han character

典 (Kangxi radical 12, 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿月金 (TBC), four-corner 5580$_1$, composition ⿱曲八)

#### Derived characters

* 倎, 唺, 㙉, 婰, 㥏, 捵, 淟, 猠, 晪, 椣, 琠, 腆, 睓, 碘, 𦥃, 𧨸, 賟(𧹖), 䠄, 錪(𬭓), 敟, 覥(觍), 䓦, 𥮏, 痶, 䐌

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 128, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1474
* Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 247, character 1
* Unihan data for U+5178

#### Further reading

* 典 on Wikidata.Wikidata

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 典
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
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* References:
* Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:
* Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
* Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
* Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
* Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
| | Old Chinese |
| 典 | *tɯːnʔ |
| 錪 | *tɯːnʔ, *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 腆 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 痶 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 淟 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 琠 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 賟 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
| 晪 | *tʰɯːnʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 冊 (“books”) + 丌 (“table”) – (official) books on a table.
Unrelated to 曲 and 曹.

### Etymology

From Proto-Sinitic *dʰiəm.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): diǎn (dian$^3$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˇ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): dian$^3$
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): din$^2$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): en$^2$
* Gan (Wiktionary): dien$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): tién
    (Meixian, Guangdong): diên$^3$
* Jin (Wiktionary): die$^2$
* Northern Min (KCR): dǐng
* Eastern Min (BUC): diēng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): deng$^3$ / dieng$^3$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): tián
    (Teochew, Peng'im): diang$^2$ / diêng$^2$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$ti
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): dienn$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: diǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: diǎn
*** Wade–Giles: tien$^3$
*** Yale: dyǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dean
*** Palladius: дянь (djanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: dian$^3$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: dian
*** Sinological IPA : /tiɛn⁵³/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: din$^2$
*** Yale: dín
*** Cantonese Pinyin: din$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: din$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːn³⁵/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: en$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /en⁵⁵/
* Gan
** (Nanchang)
*** Wiktionary: dien$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiɛn²¹³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tién
*** Hakka Romanization System: dien$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: dian$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /ti̯en³¹/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: diên$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /tiɛn³¹/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: die$^2$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /tie⁵³/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: dǐng
*** Sinological IPA : /tiŋ²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: diēng
*** Sinological IPA : /tieŋ³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: deng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɛŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: deng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɛŋ³³²/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: dieng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiɛŋ⁴⁵³/
* deng3 - literary;
* dieng3 - literary variant.
* Dialectal data
| Variety | Location | edit典 |
| Mandarin | Beijing | /tian²¹⁴/ |
| Mandarin | Harbin | /tian²¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Tianjin | /tian¹³/ |
| Mandarin | Jinan | /tiã⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Qingdao | /tiã⁵⁵/ |
| Mandarin | Zhengzhou | /tian⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xi'an | /tiã⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Xining | /tiã⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Yinchuan | /tian⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Lanzhou | /tiɛ̃n⁴⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Ürümqi | /tian⁵¹/ |
| Mandarin | Wuhan | /tiɛn⁴²/ |
| Mandarin | Chengdu | /tian⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Guiyang | /tian⁴²/ 家～ /tian²¹³/ ～當 |
| Mandarin | Kunming | /tiɛ̃⁵³/ |
| Mandarin | Nanjing | /tien²¹²/ |
| Mandarin | Hefei | /tiĩ²⁴/ |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /tie⁵³/ |
| Jin | Pingyao | /tie̞⁵³/ |
| Jin | Hohhot | /tie⁵³/ |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ti³⁵/ |
| Wu | Suzhou | /tiɪ⁵¹/ |
| Wu | Hangzhou | /tiẽ̞⁵³/ |
| Wu | Wenzhou | /ti³⁵/ |
| Hui | Shexian | /te³⁵/ |
| Hui | Tunxi | /tiɛ³¹/ |
| Xiang | Changsha | /tiẽ⁴¹/ |
| Xiang | Xiangtan | /tiẽ⁴²/ |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tiɛn²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tien³¹/ |
| Hakka | Taoyuan | /tien³¹/ |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tin³⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Nanning | /tim³⁵/ |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | /tin³⁵/ |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /tian⁵³/ |
| Min | Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /tɛiŋ³²/ |
| Min | Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /tiŋ²¹/ |
| Min | Shantou (Teochew) | /tiaŋ⁵³/ |
| Min | Haikou (Hainanese) | /ʔdin²¹³/ /ʔdai²¹³/ |
* Middle Chinese: tenX
Rime :
| Character | 典 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 多殄切 |
| Baxter | tenX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ten$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ten$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /tɛn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /tɛn$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ten$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /tien$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /tien$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | diǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | din$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤə[r]ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*tɯːnʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 典 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | diǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ten$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*tˁə[r]ʔ/ |
| English | statute, norm |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 典 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2342 |
| Phonetic component | 典 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 典 |
| Old Chinese | /*tɯːnʔ/ |

### Definitions

典
* law; canon
* documentation
* classic; scripture
* (Internet slang) Literally "classic, typical", used usually alone to complain that a person's words hit one of the typicals of the similar ridiculous expressions.

### Compounds

* 三典
* 三墳五典 / 三坟五典
* 不刊之典
* 世典
* 中典
* 五典
* 令典
* 佛典 (fódiǎn)
* 借典
* 僻典
* 內典 / 内典
* 六典
* 六房吏典
* 典借
* 典儀 / 典仪
* 典兵
* 典刑 (diǎnxíng)
* 典制 (diǎnzhì)
* 典吏
* 典型 (diǎnxíng)
* 典型人物
* 典型作風 / 典型作风
* 典型足式
* 典墳 / 典坟
* 典奧 / 典奥
* 典學 / 典学
* 典守
* 典常
* 典座
* 典押 (diǎnyā)
* 典據 / 典据
* 典故 (diǎngù)
* 典業 / 典业
* 典沒 / 典没
* 典獄 / 典狱 (diǎnyù)
* 典獄長 / 典狱长 (diǎnyùzhǎng)
* 典當 / 典当 (diǎndàng)
* 典禮 / 典礼 (diǎnlǐ)
* 典策
* 典範 / 典范 (diǎnfàn)
* 典範長存 / 典范长存
* 典籍 (diǎnjí)
* 典藏 (diǎncáng)
* 典藏本
* 典要
* 典試 / 典试
* 典謨 / 典谟
* 典謨訓誥 / 典谟训诰
* 典貼 / 典贴
* 典質 / 典质
* 典賣 / 典卖
* 典身
* 典身賣命 / 典身卖命
* 典鋪 / 典铺
* 典雅 (diǎnyǎ)
* 典雅堂皇
* 典章 (diǎnzhāng)
* 典章制度 (diǎnzhāng zhìdù)
* 典鬻 (diǎnyù)
* 典鷫鷞裘 / 典鹔𮭪裘 (diǎn sùshuāng qiú)
* 典麗矞皇 / 典丽矞皇
* 出典 (chūdiǎn)
* 出故典
* 卹典
* 古典 (gǔdiǎn)
* 古典主義 / 古典主义 (gǔdiǎnzhǔyì)
* 古典小說 / 古典小说
* 古典文學 / 古典文学
* 古典舞蹈
* 古典芭蕾 (gǔdiǎn bālěi)
* 古典音樂 / 古典音乐 (gǔdiǎn yīnyuè)
* 國典 / 国典
* 國語辭典 / 国语辞典
* 堯典 / 尧典
* 墳典 / 坟典
* 墜典 / 坠典
* 外典
* 大乘經典 / 大乘经典
* 大典 (dàdiǎn)
* 大清會典 / 大清会典
* 字典 (zìdiǎn)
* 寶典 / 宝典 (bǎodiǎn)
* 封典
* 專科辭典 / 专科辞典
* 康熙字典 (Kāngxī Zìdiǎn)
* 廢典 / 废典 (fèidiǎn)
* 引經據典 / 引经据典 (yǐnjīngjùdiǎn)
* 恩典 (ēndiǎn)
* 慶典 / 庆典 (qìngdiǎn)
* 慧典
* 憲典 / 宪典
* 懋典
* 應典 / 应典
* 成典
* 戤典
* 排房吏典
* 操典 (cāodiǎn)
* 攢典 / 攒典
* 故典
* 數典忘祖 / 数典忘祖 (shǔdiǎnwàngzǔ)
* 明正典刑
* 會典 / 会典 (huìdiǎn)
* 有典有則 / 有典有则
* 權典 / 权典
* 永樂大典 / 永乐大典 (Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn)
* 法典 (fǎdiǎn)
* 活字典 (huózìdiǎn)
* 清典
* 滅典 / 灭典
* 瑞典 (Ruìdiǎn)
* 瑞典王國 / 瑞典王国
* 畢業典禮 / 毕业典礼 (bìyè diǎnlǐ)
* 百科辭典 / 百科辞典
* 盛典 (shèngdiǎn)
* 破土典禮 / 破土典礼
* 祀典 (sìdiǎn)
* 祭典 (jìdiǎn)
* 經典 / 经典 (jīngdiǎn)
* 經典之作 / 经典之作
* 經典稽疑 / 经典稽疑
* 經典釋文 / 经典释文
* 續通典 / 续通典
* 羅馬法典 / 罗马法典
* 聯綿字典 / 联绵字典
* 茂典
* 落成典禮 / 落成典礼
* 藥典 / 药典 (yàodiǎn)
* 要典 (yàodiǎn)
* 解典庫 / 解典库
* 解典鋪 / 解典铺
* 言不諳典 / 言不谙典
* 訓典 / 训典
* 詞典 / 词典 (cídiǎn)
* 詞典學 / 词典学 (cídiǎnxué)
* 詞華典贍 / 词华典赡
* 贖典 / 赎典
* 辭典 / 辞典 (cídiǎn)
* 辭典學 / 辞典学
* 辭典派 / 辞典派
* 通典 (Tōngdiǎn)
* 釋典 / 释典 (shìdiǎn)
* 重典 (zhòngdiǎn)
* 閉幕典禮 / 闭幕典礼
* 隆恩曠典 / 隆恩旷典
* 雅典 (Yǎdiǎn)
* 雅典主義 / 雅典主义 (Yǎdiǎnzhǔyì)
* 雅典娜 (Yǎdiǎnnà)
* 電子字典 / 电子字典
* 電腦詞典 / 电脑词典
* 電腦辭典 / 电脑辞典
* 首映典禮 / 首映典礼
* 馬奴法典 / 马奴法典
* 高文典冊 / 高文典册

### References

* “典”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: てん (ten, Jōyō)、でん (den)
* Kan-on: てん (ten, Jōyō)、でん (den)
* Kun: ふみ (fumi, 典)、のり (nori, 典)、さかん (sakan)
* Nanori: すけ (suke)、つね (tsune)、みち (michi)、の (no)、のり (nori)、ふみ (fumi)、まり (mari)

#### Compounds

* 栄典
* 恩典
* 外典
* 楽典
* 旧典
* 経典
* 教典
* 儀典
* 刑典
* 権利章典
* 原典
* 皇典
* 国典
* 古典
* 祭典
* 式典
* 釈典
* 祝典
* 出典
* 字典
* 事典
* 瑞典
* 盛典
* 成典
* 聖典
* 操典
* 大典
* 特典
* 内典
* 仏典
* 文典
* 法典
* 宝典
* 羅典
* 礼典
* 辞典
* 香典
* 典雅
* 典拠
* 典型
* 典故
* 典獄
* 典侍
* 典範
* 典物
* 典薬
* 典礼
* 典麗

### Noun

典(てん) • (ten)
* ceremony
    華(か)燭(しょく)の典(てん)
       kashoku no ten
       wedding ceremony
* rule

### References

* ↑ “典”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

典 (eumhun 법 전 (beop jeon))
* hanja form of 전 (“rule; law”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

典: Hán Nôm readings: điển, đến, điếng
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.